Quantum PDK OPC Engineer (Semiconductor)

Location: Malta, New York, USA

Salary: $85,000–$146,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is a full-service semiconductor foundry providing design, development, and fabrication services with manufacturing operations across three continents.

What you will do

• Develop, qualify, maintain, and optimize OPC technology files, recipes, and computational lithography solutions for advanced semiconductor processes.
• Evaluate model-based OPC strategies and patterning solutions to improve wafer pattern fidelity, process-window performance, manufacturability, and yield.
• Collaborate with design rule, lithography, etch, metrology, modeling, mask, and computational infrastructure engineers.
• Analyze printing, patterning, and yield-limiting hotspots using simulation, wafer data, and design data.
• Validate and release OPC solutions through simulation-to-wafer correlation, process-window assessment, and hotspot verification.
• Build automated analysis, verification, and data-processing workflows to improve development efficiency and reproducibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, applied physics, materials science, chemical engineering, or a related technical field.
• Relevant experience in optical proximity correction, computational lithography, semiconductor lithography, patterning, or a related field.
• Working knowledge of semiconductor lithography, optical proximity effects, OPC concepts, process-window behavior, pattern fidelity, and semiconductor manufacturing.
• Experience with computational lithography, OPC development, lithography simulation, hotspot analysis, or related patterning tools and methodologies.
• Ability to analyze simulation and wafer data, perform root-cause analysis, and translate findings into computational or process improvements.
• Programming or scripting experience with Python, Perl, Tcl, shell scripting, or equivalent; fluent written and verbal English required.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in a relevant technical discipline.
• Experience developing and maintaining production OPC technology files for advanced semiconductor processes.
• Experience with model-based OPC, lithography modeling, process-window optimization, mask data preparation, or design-technology co-optimization.
• Experience correlating computational lithography simulations with wafer metrology and improving OPC models or recipes.
• Project management, communication, planning, and organizational skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a semiconductor manufacturing environment.
• Up to 10% travel may be required.
• Work includes cross-functional technology development and collaboration across engineering disciplines.
• Employment is subject to applicable pre-employment conditions and laws.